In a Land That No Longer Exists
Film poster
Directed by	Aelrun Goette
Written by	Aelrun Goette
Produced by	Tanja Ziegler
Starring	Marlene Burow Sabin Tambrea David Schütter Claudia Michelsen Jördis Triebel
Cinematography	Benedict Neuenfels
Edited by	Julia Karg
Music by	Boris Boyadzhiev
Release date	21 October 2022 (2022-10-21)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

In a Land That No Longer Exists (German: In einem Land, das es nicht mehr gibt) is a 2022 German historical drama film, written and directed by Aelrun Goette in her feature debut.^[1][2]

The film is about a young woman who is thrust into the fashion scene of communist East Germany after a photograph of her ends up by chance on the cover of Sibylle magazine. It is partially based on the life story of Goette, who was also a model in East Germany.^[3]

In 1989, 18-year-old Suzi is caught by the Volkspolizei with the book 1984 and a "Swords to Ploughshares" patch. She is barred from her high school graduation exams and is forced to work in an electrical cable factory. One day while riding a tram, Suzi is randomly photographed by a young photographer, Coyote, and ends up on the cover of the Sibylle fashion magazine. Suzi is invited to the editorial office, and takes a modelling job with the magazine to escape her life as a factory worker. She delves both into the world of "official" East German fashion, and also the fashion underground with her mentor, the gay, free-spirited Rudi. Suzi experiences greater freedom and falls in love with Coyote – but Coyote wants to escape to the West. Suzi must choose between leaving her career as a model and betraying her friends.

• Marlene Burow as Suzi
• Sabin Tambrea as Rudi
• David Schütter as Coyote
• Claudia Michelsen as Dr. Elsa Wilbrodt
• Jördis Triebel as Gisela

• In a Land That No Longer Exists at IMDb

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